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APRA delays new data collections implementation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
APRA has announced it is delaying the implementation timetable for the new superannuation data collections and reopening consultations on the more contentious aspects of the data requirements. News of the delay and new consultations will be welcomed ...

Labor hopes to disallow FoFA amendments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
The amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms may yet be blocked by the Senate, even though they will initially be pushed through as regulations rather than legislation, according to opposition spokesperson for superannuation and financial ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... have we got? A stalemate! There'll be more tough talks ahead but it's in everyone's - except Ukraine's - best interest to let the issue fade. Calm over Crimea aside, the headlines also pointed to fresh data on US housing starts for last night's up trade ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... notwithstanding Obama's warning that, "If Russia continues to interfere in Ukraine, we stand ready to impose new sanctions". Let's wait and see. Then again... let's not. Crimea might still be dominating the headlines but apart from last week's palpitations ...

PC examines Weaven's 'inverted bid' infra model

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2014
The Productivity Commission (PC) has given qualified support to Industry Super Australia's (ISA's) 'inverted bid' model for investing in greenfield infrastructure projects in its draft report on public infrastructure. Informally known as the 'Weaven ...

Maybe slowing, definitely distorted, more likely rebalancing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
Ayy-yay-yay-yay-yay! Here we go again. Weak economic reports out of China have again put a question mark about its economy and by extension, the economy of the world. Oh sowee Virginia, I stand corrected... it wasn't a question mark, China's headed ...

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... "When we look at the specific situation in Ukraine, and if we look at that in a fairly, I would say, from -- from a purely, let's say, technocratic viewpoint, and we look at the amount of trade in goods, services, and financial services, and flows, and ...

Never good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... sector in particular. But... but exports mainly accounted for the bounce in growth in the December quarter... not much else. Let's playback Lloyd Blankfein's -- chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs - comments at a Sydney business breakfast last ...

Chinese currency reforms to transform bond benchmarks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
China's short-to-medium-term economic challenges should not distract investors from the long-term rise of the country as a global financial power and the investment opportunities that its emergence will create, according to AllianceBernstein director ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... suspend our participation in activities associated with the preparation of the scheduled G8 Summit in Sochi in June." But let's not stop there, according to The Globe and Mail, "(Canadian) Prime Minister Stephen Harper has warned Russia could be expelled ...